Born in Beirut, Joyce A. Nashawati grew up in Athens, Accra and Kuwait City. After studying cinema in the UK, she settled in Paris. She directed three short films that received a mention at festivals before shooting her first feature Blind Sun, a dystopian thriller selected among others at Toronto (best photography), Sitges, Thessaloniki (Fipresci), Neuchâtel and Fantasporto (best actor).

Vincent Lannoo is a Belgian director who studied cinema at the Institut des Arts de Diffusion. In 1998, he directed I Love the Movies , a short fiction film that won the Best European Short Film award at the Brussels International Film Festival. After that, he turned to feature-length films, directing Strass and Ordinary Man. In 2010, he made his first comedy, Vampires.

Billy O’Brien is an award winning Irish film director and screenwriter. His latest film is the supernatural thriller I Am Not a Serial Killer, adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Dan Wells. Billy’s other features include the science fiction thriller Scintilla and the dark Irish horror film Isolation.

Estelle has been a film director since 2007. With her walkie-talkie on her belt and telephone in her hand, she’s in charge of organising feature-length films, TV films or advertising spots shot in Alsace or elsewhere. She experiences every shoot as a new adventure, which gives her job a “Mission Impossible” aspect, something she rather likes. Perseverance and being in a good mood are her watchwords.

Deputy Director of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia since 1992, Mike Hostench is also active in scriptwriting, film production and distribution. Author of four books on cinema, he is a frequent contributor to film journals and websites. He’s written more than 30 booklets for DVDs and Blu-Ray collector’s editions for American and Catalonian prestige labels.

David Scherer has been working in special-effects make-up since the mid-2000s. He runs a large number of projects with young directors passionate about the fantasy world, and works on many TV series and music clips. He was for example responsible for the make-up effects and FX prostheses for Olivier Beguin’s Chimères and Francois Gaillard’s Last Caress.

Frédéric, who has always had a passion for creating images, studied cinema and began a career as an assistant director in Paris before turning to documentary production at Bix Films. Together with other professionals, he set up Red Revolver in 2015, which produces short content for the web and television, for example Studio Plus and the regional channel Alsace 20.

Cet alsacien pur jus est à la tête depuis 1998 de Ciné Régie, une société spécialisée dans la fourniture d’armes et de costumes pour le cinéma et qui figure parmi les leaders dans le domaine. Parallèlement, Michaël Gojon-dit-Martin dirige une boîte de production audiovisuelle, une de location de costumes pour les particuliers et une autre dévolue aux effets spéciaux.

Michel Woch is a cameraman by training and began his career in television. He tried his hand as an assistant director and production manager before turning to TV and cinema fiction, where he worked as a director and assistant director. Since 2010, he has shared his audiovisual and cinema expertise with the Bureau d’accueil des tournages Grand Est.